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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452681103321

Autore

Turbet Peter

Titolo

First frontier [[electronic resource] ] : the occupation of the Sydney region 1788-1816 / / Peter Turbet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Kenthurst, N.S.W.], : Rosenberg Publishing, 2011

ISBN

1-922013-00-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Disciplina

994.4102

Soggetti

Penal colonies - Australia - History

Penal colonies - Australia - Sydney (N.S.W.) - History

Electronic books.

Sydney (N.S.W.) History

Australia History

Great Britain Colonies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-293) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1770 The First Shots; 1770 -1787 Twenty thousand Years of Occupation; 1788 Whurra Whurr; 1789 Fatal Contact; 1790 'An Universal Terror'; 1791 Disinterested Urbanity; 1792 Arthur Phillip Goes Home; 1793 Confidence in Town; 1794 Land Grants at Deerubbun; 1795 Continuing Conflict along Deerubbun; 1796 Indolent and Improvident Farmers; 1797 Pemulway's Reputation Grows; 1798 Meat, Cabbages and Melons; 1799 Murder and Revenge; 1800 The Return of Philip Gidley King; 1801 Guarding Crops Day and Night; 1802 Into the Mountains; 1803 Two Years of Peace; 1804 Sporadic Clashes

1805 Collective Punishment1806 A Most Amicable Footing; 1807 George Caley and Moowattin; 1808 Nothing Gained from Friendship; 1809 A Scotchman Caught Young; 1810 Macquarie Arrives; 1811 Settlement Spreads South-West; 1812 A Black Beau in London; 1813 A thorough Savage; 1814 Seven Years of Peace Comes to an End; 1815 Civilizing the Natives; 1816 Exemplary and Severe Punishments; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The arrival of the First Fleet heralded monumental and often catastrophic changes to the lives of the indigenous peoples living



between the Blue Mountains and the sea. As British settlement spread out from Sydney Cove the next 28 years saw frequent flare-ups of violence as disputes over precious resources erupted and the Aborigines' connection with the land was challenged. Raids on isolated farms would often be followed by a totally disproportionate reprisal from the military and settlers, but colonists and Aborigines often knew each other well and trust and friendship remained constant throug

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Record Nr.

UNISA996466791303316

Titolo

Geometric and Topological Methods for Quantum Field Theory [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Hernan Ocampo, Sylvie Paycha, Andrés Vargas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2005

ISBN

3-540-31522-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2005.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 230 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 668

Disciplina

530.15

Soggetti

Physics

Quantum field theory

String theory

Elementary particles (Physics)

Manifolds (Mathematics)

Complex manifolds

Differential geometry

Mathematical Methods in Physics

Quantum Field Theories, String Theory

Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory

Manifolds and Cell Complexes (incl. Diff.Topology)

Differential Geometry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph



Nota di contenuto

Knot Invariants and Configuration Space Integrals (Christine Lescop) -- Euclidean Quantum Field Theory on Commutative and Noncommutative Spaces (Raimar Wulkenhaar) -- Introduction to String Compactification (Anamaria Font, Stefan Theisen) -- Index Theorems and Noncommutative Topology (Thierry Fack).

Sommario/riassunto

This volume offers an introduction, in the form of four extensive lectures, to some recent developments in several active topics at the interface between geometry, topology and quantum field theory. The first lecture is by Christine Lescop on knot invariants and configuration spaces, in which a universal finite-type invariant for knots is constructed as a series of integrals over configuration spaces. This is followed by the contribution of Raimar Wulkenhaar on Euclidean quantum field theory from a statistical point of view. The author also discusses possible renormalization techniques on noncommutative spaces. The third lecture is by Anamaria Font and Stefan Theisen on string compactification with unbroken supersymmetry. The authors show that this requirement leads to internal spaces of special holonomy and describe Calabi-Yau manifolds in detail. The last lecture, by Thierry Fack, is devoted to a K-theory proof of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem and discusses some applications of K-theory to noncommutative geometry. These lectures notes, which are aimed in particular at graduate students in physics and mathematics, start with introductory material before presenting more advanced results. Each chapter is self-contained and can be read independently.